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Ad from 1988 RMC - Gary S - 10-15-2010 Olfactory Airs - industrial odors for use on model railroads - liquid that you spread around the layout to make it smell just like the real thing. Here is a sampling of the available odors: 701 Burning Coal 702 Diesel Oil 705 Roasting Corn 707 Gasoline 711 Burning Anthracite (Low Sulphur) 715 Volatile Solvent 721 Kosher Dill 722 Molten Rubber 724 Fish 731 Chlorine Bleaching Chemical 732 Tomatoes 740 Burning Wood 743 Nitrobenzene 746 Vinegar Noticably absent is GERN flux. To be honest, I don't know if I really want my layout room smelling like diesel oil and volatile solvent. Re: Ad from 1988 RMC - nachoman - 10-15-2010 this has to be a joke...right? FISH?!! Most railroad smells are ones I would much rather live without. Ever smelled heavy weight gear oil? That stuff smells worse that a dirty diaper. I guess that is one smell they missed - the direct dump toilet. Re: Ad from 1988 RMC - faraway - 10-15-2010 I miss the perfume of the new secretary of the VP... Re: Ad from 1988 RMC - P5se Camelback - 10-15-2010 I just did a cursory search using Google ... Apparently the company was so wildly successful that they just wafted away like a fresh Spring zephyr ... Re: Ad from 1988 RMC - Gary S - 10-15-2010 Kevin, the ad is in several of the 1988ish RMCs. This one is on page 16 of the September issue. And biL is right, a search on "Mikros Corporation" or "Olfactory Airs" turns up nothing related to this product. Apparently not many model railroaders wanted to stink up their layouts. More scents: 709 Heated Tar Yeah, EXACTLY what I want to smell while enjoying my hobby time! 713 Rum Hmm... a bottle of the real stuff may induce a happier modeling experience. Here we go... 716 Live Cattle, Manure and Hank Hill's favorite: 742 Propane Re: Ad from 1988 RMC - Ralph - 10-15-2010 That's amazing! Looking through the list...Volatile Solvent?!!?!! REALLY!!!???!!! Re: Ad from 1988 RMC - tetters - 10-15-2010 faraway Wrote:I miss the perfume of the new secretary of the VP... That would be Cookie Gibson's latest doll...err...assistant. Re: Ad from 1988 RMC - tetters - 10-15-2010 Gary S Wrote:Here we go... Consumption of a Bean Burrito and Chili Cheese Nachos from Taco Bell will produce the same odour giving your layout that fresh methane scent. Re: Ad from 1988 RMC - BR60103 - 10-15-2010 I think I actually ran into some of that at a show. Certainly, I don't remember smelling it again. Some of them would be hard to tell from natural show smells. Re: Ad from 1988 RMC - RobertInOntario - 10-16-2010 Was there a brewery listed in the ad? But then even breweries don't smell that great, and I like my beer! A paper factory would make for another "interesting" smell. Rob Re: Ad from 1988 RMC - Puddlejumper - 10-16-2010 I must admit that the smell of burning coal does the same thing to me as the taste of chocolate to a woman. It also brings back memories of when I was a kid, working on a steam traction engine during each August. That is a smell I wish I could enjoy more than once or so a year when I go to the Strasburg. Re: Ad from 1988 RMC - ezdays - 10-16-2010 A goodly number of years ago I had a customer that worked in the Texas oil pipeline industry. When his wife was pregnant, she didn't crave pickles and ice cream, no, she craved the smell of crude oil. He said he had to drive her over some freshly oiled roads to satisfy her craving. I remember one time we were visiting there and we all climbed up on one of those crude oil storage tanks and watched her taking in the odors. Some smells can be addicting I guess, but that was a bit far out. As far as train room smells, mine always seems to smell of Volatile Solvent seeing as how I usually knock over a bottle of something while the cap is off. Re: Ad from 1988 RMC - Gary S - 10-16-2010 RobertInOntario Wrote:Was there a brewery listed in the ad? 708 Malt and Yeast RobertInOntario Wrote:A paper factory would make for another "interesting" smell. 731 Chlorine Bleaching Chemical - the ad says it is for a paper mill Re: Ad from 1988 RMC - MasonJar - 10-16-2010 Rendering plant...? Andrew Re: Ad from 1988 RMC - shaygetz - 10-16-2010 I remember those goobers ... however, they did have a pretty cool product in "Wireless Willie" the brakemen with a lantern in 2 different poses. They also had a pretty good model of a mine interior you were to mount below your layout and view through the fascia. |